Caught Empty Handed

Joe Bravo, who usually rides on the New Jersey circuit, made a special trip up to Saratoga on Friday to ride a 2-year-old filly named Caught Red Handed in the second race. Joe would have been better off taking in a movie.

Word was out that she was a runner, but she looked like anything but in the paddock. She sulked and acted up as if she’d rather have been anywhere else but at the racetrack. Nonetheless, she got crushed at the windows early and often, and wound up going off at 4-5.

Icy City, who looked great in the paddock and in the post parade (how’s that for redboarding?), won at a square 5-2 to haul in $28,200 for her owners. Caught Red Handed ran dead last and took home eighth-place money: $312.